On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:

--- rps@maine.edu wrote: From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>

We service most of the state's public schools and libraries (about 1000). Historically the CPE of choice was a small Cisco ISR (1600,1700, 1800, and 1900 most recently). As bandwidth levels went up, and Ethernet-based transport services became available, we started looking and leveraging FOSS on commodity hardware to lower costs and move

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After roll-out and after a time in steady-state operation did you do an analysis of human and hardware/software costs (as well as service to end sites, such as outages that might not have happened with normal routers and LAN switches) to see if you actually saved money?

: For us, the ability to have more tools to poke : at the state of the system and troubleshoot : issues (such as performing packet captures : directly on the device) has been invaluable. : It has allowed us to track down issues (such : as TCP window scaling problems with unnamed : cloud services and their incorrectly configured : load balancers) remotely that would have : required on-site capture in the past. This alone would put me in heaven, rather than the mirror to an open port and sniff it procedure... :-) Thanks for the response, scott